A partnership between The BRIDGE, the Toronto East Quadrant Local Immigration Partnership and the . The , a group that represents 40 newcomer settlement service providers in the Scarborough area.
The agencies had difficulty tracking services due to a variety of data formats and were challenged in obtaining an overall sense of newcomer activity in East Toronto. Under the banner of Work Integrated Learning (WIL), UTSC Management leveraged faculty expertise, courses, and co-op student positions to design and deliver a data warehouse platform that has successfully collected, aggregated, and anonymized over 90,000 records of refugees and newcomers in the GTA.
UTSC Management research faculty and students will continue to collect and analyze this data in order to optimize services and identify future trends as well as support capacity building at the agencies themselves.
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